Man pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter

Davis sentenced to 77-105 months in prison

10:11 PM,
Nov. 1, 2012

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A man police charged with one count of first-degree murder for his part in a triple-stabbing that horrified West Asheville pleaded guilty this week to one count of voluntary manslaughter.

Stevie Gene Davis, 52, of Candler, was sentenced to at least six years and five months in prison in the death of Steven Atwell Wike, the Buncombe County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday. Davis could serve a maximum of eight years and nine months in prison.

"Based on the factors involved, we thought that was the appropriate charge and sentence given the nature of the case," Assistant District ...